Boating

Édouard Manet

1874 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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About this work

Artist: Édouard Manet (1832–1883)
Year: 1874
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 97.2 × 130.2 cm
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Movement: Impressionism

A man in white, straw hat tilted, holds the tiller of a sailing boat while a woman in a blue-striped dress and hat sits beside him, the boat and sail cropped so sharply that the aquamarine river fills almost the whole picture. Manet painted it in the summer of 1874 at Argenteuil, where he spent time across the Seine from his family's property at Gennevilliers with Monet and Renoir. He borrowed their lighter palette and open brushwork, but the broad colour planes and strong diagonals come from Japanese prints. His brother-in-law Rodolphe Leenhoff is thought to have posed for the sailor; the woman is unidentified. Shown at the Salon of 1879, it was called the last word in painting by Mary Cassatt, who urged Louisine and Henry Havemeyer to buy it. It came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with their bequest in 1929.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Boating in the public domain?

Yes. Édouard Manet (1832–1883) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Boating painted, and in what medium?

Boating dates from 1874 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 97.2 × 130.2 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Édouard Manet's Boating — a man in a straw boater at the tiller of a sailboat with a woman in blue, on a bright Argenteuil river — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. The Birth of Modern Painting, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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